Critical Role of Intensive-care Units
Every day, life-saving miracles are performed in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) across Australia and New Zealand. In any one-year over 143,000 people, including over 7,700 children are admitted to ICUs in Australia and New Zealand.
Over 86% of adults and 97% of children survive life threatening accidents or illnesses with the help of intensive care each year.
There are 181 ICUs, 155 in Australia and 26 in New Zealand. Of these, Australia has 8 specialised paediatric intensive care units (PICU) and New Zealand has 1 PICU. In addition to these intensive care units, there are a number of high dependency units.
Read more about this topic: Intensive Care Foundation
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